A Quote by Frank Herbert

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert
American - Writer
October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Michelangelo

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

Muriel Rukeyser

I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.

Howard Stern

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

Mencius

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

W. Somerset Maugham

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

Kelly Cutrone

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

Martial

What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Gangaji

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

Pope Gregory I

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Mary Wortley Montagu

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

R. C. Sproul

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

Timothy Keller

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Charles Caleb Colton

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.